Feed-bag.



G. & B'. LEAD/BETTER.

FEED BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15 -Ptented Dec. 13,1910

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FEED-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 13, 1910.

Application filed June 15, 1910. Serial No. 567,005.

b all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CLAYTON LEAD- BETTER and BERTRAND LEADBETTER, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Lestershire, in the county of Broome and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Feed-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to feed bags, and it has particular reference to that class of feed bags which are provided with pouches or pockets to contain the feed which is permitted to pass gradually from said pockets on to the bottom of the bag proper where it is conveniently accessible to the animal.

The present invention has for its object to produce a feed bag of simple and improved construction having pouches which may be sustained in depending position while being lled with feed, after which they may be raised or lifted above the level of the bottom of the bag so as to lie adjacent to the sides of the head of the animal in a position where the contents of the pockets or pouches will readily pass to the bottom of the bag.

The invention further consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the invention may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing,-Figure l is a perspective view, showing the improved feed bag applied to the head of an animal. Fig. 2 is a front view of the device showing the same with the pockets or pouches in depending position for filling. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view showing the device in the same position as in Fig. 2 and on a somewhat larger scale. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 4 4 in Fig. 3.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The improved device includes a nose bag of suitable dimensions, said nose bag being preferably composed of a bottom l of wood or other rigid material upon which the flexible wall member 2 of canvas, duck or other flexible material is suitably secured. Said nose bag is provided on diametrically opposite sides adjacent to the rigid bottom member 1 withlapertures 3 adjacent to each of which is secured a pouch or pocket member 4 of elongated tubular shape, each of said pocket members being 'closed at its outer end and provided with an eyelet 5 extending through the side walls thereof. The wall member of the nose bag is provided with ventilating apertures 6 which may be reinforced by eyelets 7.

The side wall of the nose bag is provided adjacent to its upper edge at diametrically opposite sides and directly above the apertures 3 with eyelets 8 through which flexible tying members 9 are threaded, each of said tying members being provided adjacent to one end with a stop member, such as a knot 10, abutting exteriorly upon the eyelet 3, and each of said tying members being also provided intermediate its ends with a knot or stop member ll. The tying members 9 extend through the eyelets 8, passing from thence over the upper edges of the flexible wall member of the nose bag and being threaded through the eyelets 5 adjacent to the outer ends of the pouches or pockets 4.

Then the tying members are untied and the device is held by the upper edge of the wall member of the nose bag, the pouches or pockets 4 will depend on opposite sides, as clearly seen in Figs. 2 and 3. Vhile thus held, grain or other feed may be poured into the bag passing from thence into the pockets or pouches 4. When the nose bag is adjusted upon the animal, the free ends of the tying members are seized and carried upward, the pouches 4 being supported in a raised or elevated position by the eyelets 5 abutting upon the stop members 11, and the free ends of the tying members being joined together above the head of the animal where the feed bag will thus be supported in position, as seen in Fig. 1. The contents of the pouch es will gradually escape upon the rigid bottom member of the nose bag where it is conveniently accessible to the animal. The feed will thus be supplied gradually ,and without danger of choking the animal, the

nef-e bag being` also Ventilated so that the breathing` ot the animal will not be obstructed. The device is extremely simple in construction and majY be supplied at a small expense.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

l. A feed bag coniprising a nose bag having diametricallj7 opposite pendent pouches provided adjacent to their closed outer ends with eyelets extending through the side walls thereot', and-tying members secured adjacent to the upper edge ot' the nose bag and guided through the eyelets ot the pouches.

2. In a feed bag, a nose bag having a rigid bottom and provided with diametriealljT opposite pendent pouches closed at their outer ends, eyelets extending through the side Walls ot the pouches, guide members secured adjacent to the upper edge of the nose bag and threaded through the eyelets 0f the pouches7 and eye-let engaging stop members upon the tying members intermediate the ends of the latter.

3. A feed bag comprising a nose bag having a rigid bottom and Yentilating openings, pendent pouches connected with the side Wall otl the nose bag at diametricalljY opposite sides, eyelets extending through the side walls of the pouches adjacent to their closed outer ends, tying members connected with the nose bag adjacent to its upper edge, said tjf'ing members being guided through the eyelets ot the pouches. and ej'elet engaging pouch supporting stop members upon the tying members intermediate the ends of the latter,

In testimony u'hereotl We affix our signatures in presence of two Witnesses. i

CLAYTON LEADBETTER. BERTRAND LEi-XDBETPER.

Witnesses z MAR@ RoinNsoN, GEORGE Porn. 

